Thomas Borthwick and Sons (Australasia) Limited v Haeata - [1965] NZLR 957

Industrial law — Industrial conciliation and arbitration — Worker suing employer for wages in Magistrate's Court — Decision of case requiring interpretation of relevant award — Whether Magistrate bound to follow earlier decisions of Court of Arbitration interpreting same or similar award — Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act 1954, s. 211

Master and servant — Pieceworker claiming wages at hourly rate for waiting time — Award providing for hourly rate of payment when pieceworker "required to wait for work" — Meaning of that phrase — Whether such waiting time to be paid for when lack of work due to holding of unauthorised stopwork meeting by another section of employer's workers.